A growing body of research is exploring the role of community-based initiatives (CBIs) in the promotion of sustainable regional transitions. While existing research and policies acknowledge the relevant contribution of community activism in providing a soft, self-governed and bottom-up path...

The creation of a Free Trade Area is the main pillar on which regionalization in the Mediterranean has been pursued since the establishment of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership in 1995. The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the relation between commercial integration and region-building in...

Italy has been at the forefront in the implementation of place-based regional development strategies during the 2000s, and it constitutes therefore a privileged point of view to investigate the contents of the approach, its potentialities as well as its limitations. In light of those...

By using the recent Gertler and Kiyotaki's (2010) setup, this paper explores the interaction between real distortions stemming from the labor market institutions and financial shocks. We find that neither labor market imperfections nor fiscal institutions determining tax wedges have an impact on...

Negli ultimi decenni Roma, come molte altre città nel panorama internazionale, ha affrontato i problemi della riconversione economica e della riarticolazione istituzionale allo scopo di trovare un posizionamento di rilievo nella gerarchia urbana globale. Il modello di sviluppo perseguito ha...

We challenge the widely held belief that New Keynesian models cannot predict an optimal positive inflation rate. In fact we find that even for the US economy, characterized by relatively small government size, optimal trend inflation is justified by the Phelps argument that the inflation tax...

In this paper we investigate the roots, nature and consequences of the exit strategies that have already been implemented or are likely to be implemented in the EMU countries after the financial and economic crisis. We show that there is a deflationary bias in the current institutional...

Il turismo sembra vivere un rapporto nuovo con le città, in particolari di grandi dimensioni. Ormai quotidianamente si legge del lancio di iniziative turistiche in forma di piccoli e grandi eventi; della realizzazione di icone artistiche e architettoniche, di nuove funzioni che, più o meno...